Here are some of my tips for finding a job after graduation:
1. Go to the
Spring Career Days. Skip your classes that day if you have to…plan to spend at least 4 hours there networking and passing out resumes. Do your research before you go to really stand out.
2. Check out the postings on the
Nittany Lion Career Network. There are a ton of jobs posted on this website that only current PSU students can log into.
3. Look at external job posting websites. A lot of the positions posted are entry level. There are plenty of jobs to be found out there from companies who don’t necessarily have the resources available to come recruit at PSU. Find them on job boards like
SnagAJob.com, 
Yahoo! HotJobs, 
Monster.com, 
and
aftercollege.com
After doing a cumulative project at the end of the Fall 2009 semester concerning PSU students and their job searches, I decided to seek out what tools are already out there for college student job seekers. Let’s face it, mock interviews at the Bank of America Career Services Center just don’t cut it sometimes…another student interviews you by reading some questions that are printed on paper. Not so realistic.
I think that
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